Kelly Roskam (she/her)A little late, but several of my colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions and preeminent #domesticviolence and #firearms researchers from across the country filed a brief urging #SCOTUS to take up United States of Rahimi and uphold the federal law prohibiting persons subject to DV protective orders from possessing firearms. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-915/264023/20230420121311462_22-915%20US%20v.%20Rahimi%20-%20Horwitz%20et%20al.%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf
We argue that the United States has a robust history of regulating firearm access by people perceived to be dangerous. #gunviolence #domesticviolence #Bruen
People subject to #domesticviolence protective orders are clearly dangerous to their intimate partners, families, friends, first responders and the broader public. #gunviolence #Bruen
Consider, for example, a study that found that IPV victims who sought a protective order were far more likely to report an abuser threatening to shoot them, children, family/friends and strangers. #domesticviolence #gunviolence #Bruen
(((Cindy Weinstein)))@KellyEWRoskam. This is great. I think voices from the fields of medicine (doctors on the front line, desperately trying to save people who have been eviscerated by #AR15s, and public policy (those with the data) really need to be heard more. Thank you #johnshopkins